Re: [Evolution] Slightly OT - Creating database from Emails

[Gordon Burgess-Parker <gordon burgessparker gbpcomputing co uk>]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 08:46 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 09:08 +0000, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > I have a large quantity of emails in Evolution on the Open Office
> > mailing list - is there any way to convert these to a database for
> > convenient searching?
>
> ISTM that mbox is the best format for searching, no?  If anything,
> grep will blaze thru it.

Thanks - I'll have a look at grep (I'm a /relative/ linux newbie....)